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I gave a talk for thirty minutes on signal to noise in xray data collection and the relevant optics that improved the signal to noise at CSIRO. I thought I had dumbed it down enough. When I finished the sea of about one hundred people's faces were looking like stunned mulletts.
The only person who asked the first question was my supervisor. He looked as lost as the rest. It was then I realised that what I was doing was beyond their comprehension. I mumbled something about everything I have done is self evident.
From then on I was tagged with this epithet. Everything is self evident to Bert and yet we do not understand.
In labs far and wide when they had a major problem they would joke that the answer was self evident! Just ask Bert!
Bert
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